Brand new in the shrink wrap!
When Czechoslovakia finally threw off the Communist regime that
had isolated and controlled the country's artistic production from its
inception in 1948 until its demise in 1989, a treasure trove of avant
garde photography from just before the era of repression was suddenly
rediscovered, revealing a group of artists who were as experimental as
they were fundamentally Czech. In fact, there is hardly any other area
in the history of photography that has received so little attention as
the Czech avant-garde work made between the end of World War I and the
Communist takeover shortly after World War II. This is particularly
astonishing because the country produced such a large number of
photography groups and artists. This large-format collection features
several hundred works by more than 40 photographers, including Frantisek
Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler, Josef Sudek, Anton Josef
Trcka and others.